What do you get when you add Bush to Bill Clinton?
Boil CNN
Bullshi*. (rearranging the letters of the principals).
Why is Nanaimo City Council building a Conference Centre downtown? ... when City Council has moved its conferences away from downtown?
May 2008 - In the oft incestuous world of municipal financing, the
Port of Nanaimo has again stepped in to close the gap. Nanaimo's
controversial conference centre will now be called the Port of Nanaimo Centre. How
will that be abbreviated? PoNC? PoNCe? PoNÇ? Will it be
pronounced pOWN-thay, like the
16th
century Spanish explorer, or pawn-ss like the
uncomplimentary British slang? Will Fill our PoNCe
become
a rallying cry of civic fervour? After all, on its own terms the
conference centre can be a success only if it is heavily booked
(filled), and it is our centre, if dollars paid mean
anything. The possibilities leave me panting.
Earlier manifestations included the Port Theatre. Hey, they could have saved 33% on signage by naming it the Hub Theatre. In my lifetime, Nanaimo has gone from the Hub City to the Harbour City, and is in the process of rebranding its downtown with the even more generic word Port. The mall used to be called Harbour Park, but now it is Port Place.
July 2008 - The building has dual naming. It is both PoNCe and VICC - Vancouver Island Conference Centre.
Back in ye olde days, Nanaimo had a Heritage Advisory
Committee (HAC). Then around 1997 it got upgraded from a
Committee to a Commission (thus having Powers) and was renamed the
Nanaimo Community Heritage Commission (my
emphasis). There had been a certain vitality in saying I'm a
HAC-ker
or I belong to HAC
and I wanted something almost
as good, albeit without the bullet. So I came up with NaCHeCo. Not
to be confused with:
Nechako, a
local, British Columbia, geographical reference. Turns out that
Nacheco is a place in Mozambique (mowss-am-BEEK), maybe with less
tourism than the South Pole! NaCHeCo did not catch on.
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